Grant for Jeremiah Shashko (1459)
Nicholas Zharkikh
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Our righteous war against the Rotten Straw Horde is going further and further, so much so that Iran with its "Shaheds" and "Mohajers" has joined the Horde. And all this looks like a war of our crusading army of knights of light against the godless and Muslims. But this was their – godless-Muslim – choice.
And what about me? Am I doing the right thing by continuing my work from (relatively) peacetime? Well, I fed 14 million readers with my 14 websites in 2021 – is that a lot or a little?
I think, like the old regime Tugendbund: "Do what you can and let what will be done" (October 24, 2022 at 8:00).
The charter of the Kyiv prince Semen Alexandrovich for Jeremiah Shashko was known to scholars in the 2nd half of the 19th century in the original, which was lost already at the beginning of the 20th century, when V. Rozov was preparing his edition. [RUG, No. 93, p. 170 – 173]. The phototypical copy that was available to V. Rozov aroused in him great suspicions about the paleography, which was not characteristic of the 15th century, and the suspicion that this original did not belong to the 15th century.
If we now connect the upper reaches and mouths of the named rivers, we will get a nice principality in the southwest of Vinnytsia region:
Map of the grant of 1459
on a topographical basis Google maps
Its area – 1900 sq. km – can be compared to the area of modern Luxembourg (2586 sq. km), and if Shashko could settle it and manage it, then…
From a political point of view, these grants tell us that Pobozhye came under the rule of the Kyivan prince, although some ten years ago it was under the rule of the Grand Duke of Lithuania. When did this change occur? Is it possible to connect it with the appointment of Semen Alexandrovich as the Kyivan prince instead of the deceased Alexander Volodymyrovych (1455)?